Loneliness Quotes

I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night thinking about the things that you've suddenly became aware of. The things you're missing out on right now, and all the people who are not close to you anymore, and all of the good times that will never happen again, and all the people who have meant the world to you who have forgotten about you forever, and you get this awful feeling that's kind of like a mix between loneliness and nostalgia.

~ Abraham M. Alghanem

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

~ Jack Kerouac

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

~ Allison Burnett

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

~ Douglas Coupland

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

~ Bill Callahan

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

~ Sophocles

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.

~ Donna Tartt

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

~ T.s. Eliot

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.

~ Paul Tillich

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

~ Phoebe Stone

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

~ John Corey Whaley

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

~ William Shakespeare

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy

~ Richard Bach

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying Come up again, dear!I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down heretill I'm somebody else--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burstof tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tiredof being all alone here!

~ Lewis Carroll

I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault.She did it.She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar.Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

~ David Levithan

I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

~ Paulo Coelho

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

~ Alan Bradley

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.

~ Toba Beta

She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.

~ Michele Young-Stone

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

~ Anna Carey

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

~ Anthony Swofford

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

~ Stephen King

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

~ Marty Rubin

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

~ Jodi Picoult

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

~ Stevie Smith

Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative—an absence of company, and, of course, something temporary... That day I had learned that it was much more. It was something which could press and oppress, could distort the ordinary and play tricks with the mind. Something which lurked inimically all around, stretching the nerves and twanging them with alarms, never letting one forget that there was no one to help, no one to care. It showed one as an atom adrift in vastness, and it waited all the time its chance to frighten and frighten horribly—that was what loneliness was really trying to do; and that was what one must never let it do...

~ John Wyndham

She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

~ Kim Edwards

Twilight whippoorwill...Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness

~ Bashō Matsuo

But most days,I wander around feeling invisible.Like I'm a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

~ Sonya Sones

The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning.

~ Maggie Hall

To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone tog

~ Vera Nazarian

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

~ Holly Black

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

~ Truman Capote

...Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness

~ Amy Huntley

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

~ Simon Van Booy

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

~ Paul Tillich